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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Nah, lasers too big. It would be a simple birdshot shotgun. Its detection and aiming.

When they are high up, they can be hard to spot and hear.
But a pair of sensitive mic's and a camera designed to look for them could easily be paired with some AR glasses.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    somebody already put lasers on F35 and israelis are using ground-based lasers as a complement to iron dome

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, have you seen the size of those? Those are chem lasers in order to get the wattage needed to destroy something.

    Plus you need the electronics/mechanics to track the device perfectly to keep the laser on target in order for it to do damage.

    All completely unnecessary to drop a small drone out of the sky.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    there are also fiber lasers with enough power for small, slow targets like drone and size small enough to fit in a modern western fighter jet pod. targeting is done via radar roughly and then the same optics , or similar optics that laser uses later

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